Katie Hammel

Walking down your high school hallway and realizing you don’t have any clothes on. Trying to talk, but your teeth keep falling out. When it comes to recurring nightmares, losing your passport right before a dream trip is right up there with the worst of them.
But a lost passport isn’t the only passport-related issue that could get you turned away at the airport or cause issues while you’re on your trip. Here are nine other passport mistakes that could seriously mess up your travel plans.

Gather round, Swifties!

Whether you were a victim of The Great War (aka the 2022 Ticketmaster debacle) and missed your chance to buy tickets to the Eras Tour, or you went already and simply want to relive the amazingness of the show again, the European leg could be your ticket (no pun intended) to screaming “He looks up grinning like a devil,” with 60,000 other fans.

A deep-dive analysis into the landscape of travel right now—from trending prices to trending places to how people are thinking about travel in 2024.

A deep-dive analysis into the landscape of air travel right now, from pricing trends to trending places to how the ongoing pandemic is affecting travelers’ choices in 2022.

If you’ve ever walked through first or business class and thought “if only,” this is the article for you.

Foreign? Try otherworldly.
Iceland is only the size of Kentucky, but the diversity of its landscapes is staggering. There are windswept black sand beaches, turquoise glacial lagoons, mossy lava fields, and literally thousands of waterfalls. NASA even found the island so otherworldly they decided it was the best place to train astronauts for the first moon landing.

In the pastoral region of Speyside in northeast Scotland, whisky is everywhere. Vast, blond fields of barley stretch under open skies. Wooden whisky barrels sit stacked behind low stone warehouses. Whisky bars and bottle shops line the streets, the signature pagoda-shaped chimneys where malt is roasted peek above the green hillsides, and the sweet smell of fermenting barley fills the air.

In the last decade, visitor numbers to Iceland have grown by 500 per cent as appearances on Game of Thrones have spread news of the wonders of this isolated island nation, which is home to otherworldly landscapes, steaming hot springs and waterfalls around every turn. That boom in visitors has also led to a boom in hotels, with plenty of comfortable, stylish options at a variety of price points.
Here are the top hotels in Reykjavik.

Arguably the most famous wine region in the West, Napa Valley is also one of the most expensive. A trip to the wine country is all about experiencing the good life—fine wine, creative cuisine, beautiful scenery, and a relaxed pace—and while that good life can come with a high price, traveling with limited funds doesn’t have to mean missing out on this exquisite corner of California.

If Iceland were to have a national slogan, it would be ‘þetta reddast’, which roughly translates to the idea that everything will work out all right in the end.

It all started on Sunday, October 8, when a spark in Northern California quickly evolved into some of the deadliest wildfires in state history. They spread through Napa Valley, consuming whole towns in Sonoma, Mendocino, and Yuba counties; the latest estimate from Cal Fire, the state's firefighting agency, puts the death toll at 42 across the state. An estimated 8,400 buildings have been destroyed; 245,000 acres scorched; and more than 100,000 California residents were forced to evacuate.
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A windswept country devoid of trees, where the summers are short and the winters are long and dark — Iceland doesn’t exactly sound like a paradise for culinary travelers. And the truth is, the country has never been thought of as a great foodie destination. For centuries, people had to get by with a limited amount of produce, whatever fish they could pull from the sea, and lamb. Lots of lamb.

Tucked away in northwest Italy, about 120 miles from the Swiss border as the crow flies, the region of Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) is home to one of the boot’s most prolific wine producing areas, the Langhe.